Itwaru arnold harrichand (6 risultati)

Condizione: FINE. First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition. Third volume of poetry by this writer and scholar who was born in Guyana, now lives in Canada. Near fine in stiff glossy illustrated wrappers.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Condizione: Very Good. TSAR Publications, 2001. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A clean, tight and unmarked copy- " After residing uneasily in Canada for over twenty years, Deo returns to Guyana, having dreampt always of coming home, but finds there a disconcerting homelessness where every item of his memory has been violated. His mother is dying. He is a stranger to everyone else. There is emptiness where his father once lived. Dismay and sorrow and terror are etched in the lives of everyone around. It is within this that Deo struggles to make sense of himself, and the things which have fallen apart around him, the memory of his past clashing against a tortured present and questionable future. "Home and Back" is a powerful and merciless indictment of modern, postcolonial West Indies. At the same time Itwaru brings us a touching lyrical meditation on growth and loss, the departure from home and life lived between remembering and forgetting in an alien elsewhere. With artistic maturity and insight, Itwaru offers a visceral understanding of community and pays homage to the struggles for integrity and dignity within the vicissitutes of harsh reality." "Itwaru often reads like a Gordimer, Soyinka or Achebe in his dedicated pursuit of the truth . . . and mincing not a single word, he leaves us wordless . . ." - Sunday Observer (India) ." . . powerful, involving reading . . ." - Books in Canada 200 pp.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 194 pp.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. These 194 pages of fiction have a strong feel of autobiography - a Guyana man returns home after a long residence in Canada. Can one ever return home ? READ more about : disapprovals, pachouli, customs officials, Gopal, Headmaster Jaipersaud, muckmucko leaf, Berbice Slave Rebellion, over-charged, Cuffy, and yellow crabwood sawdust smells. UNillustrated. Cond : Bright red paper wrapper with yellow lettering. Front cover artwork shows both skylines - (Dutch) Guyana and Ontario. Tight bright, square and clean. No names, no marks, no wear. QUote (p. 98) : " Behind him the large photograph of the President watched in silent threat and authority. Successor to the first quick-tongued President whom the ruling party had declared the Comrade Founding Leader of the New Nation, much to the ._._._. . ". A.H. Itwaru (cover) (illustratore). …

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. The book is inscribed, signed and dated by the authors' life partner and Artist Natasha Ksonzek who did the cover art and to whom this book is dedicated. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).